Would be nice if Radio-Canada verified their account through their domain name to add a bit more legitimacy to the account.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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I wish they chose mastodon :\
…and set up their own instance.
Mastodon and Lemmy instances seem to me to be the sort of thing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation should be doing.
Hopefully the CBC's funding increases are brought in soon!
CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding by the federal government is well below the average funding of G7 countries, which is $62.20 per capita. Currently, the government grants approximately $1.38 billion to CBC/Radio-Canada, which represents approximately $33.66 per capita, thereby placing Canada in sixth place in the Group of Seven (G7) in terms of public funding per capita for its national public broadcaster. The per capita funding that CBC/Radio-Canada receives is therefore equal to approximately half of the G7 average. The Minister intends to bring Canada more into line with its G7 counterparts.
wait, so only $29 of my tax goes to CBC?
which represents approximately $33.66 per capita
Not sure where $29 came from. In any case, we need a strong public broadcaster to protect Canadian cultural heritage and sovereignty. And I'm glad there is movement on this.
hmm, yea, i butchered that.
Cant believe that only $33.66 of my tax goes to it, and i shoudl start donating $29 to 'bring up' my tax donation to the G7 average.
Hmm, what about donating to Fair Vote Canada? Democracy Watch is also a good organization.
yea, this year i likely financially stable enough I can make some donations to worthy organizations. Having a baby & 18m of maternity leave took all our money!
On the other hand, I get that they don't want to act as a moderator when they don't have to.
A Mastodon server to host journalists accounts and official feeds would be nice though, which people could follow from their home instances.
Mastodon doesn't have a billionaire backer.
Which is a good thing.
And? I'm 99% sure that wasn't a factor when they created the accounts. It's just that mastodon has a generous 0% chance at becoming mainstream compared to Bluesky. And also Jack Dorsey has left the bsky board a long time ago, he's not involved with the project anymore.
It’s just that mastodon has a generous 0% chance at becoming mainstream compared to Bluesky.
Which is irrelevant. RSS is not mainstream and CBC still supports it, because it's the right thing to do.
The thing is, ActivityPub had a real - if small - chance of becoming mainstream over the long term, Mastodon or not Mastodon. CBC.ca could integrate the protocal and push stuff out seamlessly. And that might happen some day.
CBC has a strong history of supporting new and not mainstream vectors as it tries to fulfill its mandate of reaching every Canadian. And platforms like Twitter and BlueSky don't fulfill that mandate due to their closed nature.
Bluesky will inevitably enshittify. It could be a long time from now but it will happen. It is funded by crypto company investors and public benefit corps can easily be amended into plain old private corporations
Bluesky is still leagues better than Xitter and I applaud any change from Xitter to Bluesky or Mastodon. When capitalism runs its course on Bluesky, Mastodon will be even better posed than before as an alternative.